In order to transcend Trumpism, we must tend to suffering—not celebrate it
The contemporary political arena rations compassion as though it is a scarce commodity when, in reality, it is inexhaustible.
What wildfires do to our minds
A Northern California community offers mental health first-aid to survivors of devastating fires.
Our surreal world
Our world, I am thinking, is no longer a real one. It has become a surreal world, a world of irreality, ever since Donald Trump was elected President.
The Republican Trumpless Debate
Fox News hosted its Republican debate last week without Donald Trump. So how did it go?
The decline and fall of everything (including me)
What goes up must… Well, you know…
73 years after US dropped atom bomb on Nagasaki, survivor warns about threat of...
In 1954, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people and forever changing the lives of those who survived the nuclear attack.
How movements can use drama to seize the public imagination
Drama is useful in getting attention for our issues. The Sunrise Movement is only one of the recent movements that grew by...
Men, we can do better
Survivors of sexual assault like Christine Blasey Ford deserve our support, not our opposition.
Patriotism has little stature when the need for international collaboration has never been so...
Rather than encouraging the collective, global scientific approach the pandemic desperately needs, Trump deliberately isolates the United States from such a required international response.
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.